Study on knowledge and adoption of soil health card based fertilizer application in Khandwa district (M.P.)

Abstract

The present study was conducted in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh during the year 2016-2017. During the study 10 villages of the block were selected, where 05 respondents from each village and total of 50 respondents were selected randomly from the entire block. The data were collected through personal interview method with the help of pre-structured scheduled designed questionnaire with the objective of finding out the knowledge and adoption level of soil health card based fertilizer application in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh. The study revealed that, the knowledge level of the farmers were high (66.00%) followed by medium (18.00%) and lowest (16.00%), whereas the adoption level of the farmers were high (74.00%) followed by medium (22.00%) and lowest (04.00%).